Multi-Medium Garden Scene

Materials:

• White cardboard paper
• Blue watercolour paint
• Yellow pipe cleaner
• Yellow wool
• Green pastel
• Flower shaped buttons
• Googly eye
• Flower and leaf shaped sequins
• Pencil crayons
• Kokies
• Scrap fabric
• Scissors
• White craft glue

Method:

1. Paint your card with the blue watercolour paint.
2. Once dried, use the green pastel to draw in grass and flower stems.
3. Use craft glue to stick the flower shaped buttons onto the stems and grass, leaving one stem free.
4. Cut out a flower shape from the scrap fabric.
5. Use craft glue to stick the piece of fabric to the last flower stem.
6. Use the flower and leaf shaped sequins to decorate the grass and stems.
7. Roll the pipe cleaner into a tight spiral shape and use craft glue to stick it down at the top of the page for the sun.
8. Cut small pieces of yellow wool and use craft glue to stick them as the sun's rays.
9. Use a kokie to draw the outline of a bird in the sky.
10. Use a pencil crayon to colour the bird in.
11. Use craft glue to stick a small googly eye onto the bird.

Natural Sunflower

Age Group: 2 years (with help) to 6 years
Estimated Time: Under 30 minutes
Messiness: High

Materials:

• Large piece of white cardboard paper - A3 size or bigger
• Yellow poster paint
• Sunflower seeds
• Leaves
• Brown crayon
• Green crayon
• White craft glue
• Pom-pom (optional)
• Button (optional)

Method:

1. Paint a large sunflower on the cardboard and leave to dry.
2. Once dried, spread white craft glue in the middle of the sunflower and sprinkle sunflower seeds.
3. Draw the stem and a leaf - you can also substitute these for the actual things!!
4. Harley (3 years) and Scarlett (2 years) decided that their sunflower needed bees and used a pom-pom and button to depict this.

Natural Tree

This is a really nice activity to get children outdoors, even if only for a short while. 

Age Group: 2 years (with help) to 10 years
Estimated Time: 15 to 30 minutes
Messiness: Medium

Materials:

• A4 white cardboard paper
• Brown crayon
• Different types of leaves
• Flower petals
• Blades of grass
• Pritt glue
• Scissors

Method:

1. Go into your garden and pick different types of leaves - I got hold of 6 different types.
2. Pick a small, brightly coloured flower.
3. With scissors, cut off a few blades of grass.
4. Use the brown crayon to draw a tree trunk and some branches - as you can see, I am no artist!!
5. Using normal Pritt glue, glue the leaves onto the branches, the blades of grass individually at the bottom of the tree trunk and the flower petals on the other side.